Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Savannah, Ga., Francis Marion Gill, a Confederate veteran aged 81, laid claim to being " the oldest father in the U. S." by reason of a boy born a year ago to his wife, aged...
...Lancet (founded in 1823), Great Britain's oldest scientific weekly, will celebrate its 100th birthday by an anniversary number. It is at this day one of the leading medi-cal journals of the world. Since its founding anaesthetics, antiseptics, and bacteriology, as well as many other fundamental contributions to medicine, have been made. It has something to celebrate...
...control by the Industrialists. Nor for France would realization of his aims appear to be altogether unfortunate. It is agreed that Germany's collapse is an industrial one, and that only absolute unity of purpose and control can enable her to get on her feet before all but the oldest in-habitant has forgotten the meaning of "Allied Debt." No one doubts that Stinnes, if he goes about it in the right way, is capable of making the "giant factory" eventually produce. Whether he can accomplish this before revolution strikes is another question. More-over, it does not appear that...
...politics he is a real follower of Kossuth in liberalism and democracy, and an ardent Royalist. For more than 50 years he was the leader of the Independent Kossuth Party and has been Speaker of the House of Representatives and Minister of Education. Although he belongs to the oldest Hungarian aristocracy, he gave up his seat in the House of Magnates in order to sit in the lower House...
This policy has been carried out in the first issue of the season, the Freshman number. If the policy is consistently carried out, it may mark a new era in the publication of college comic papers since the Lampoon is not only the oldest and one of the most influential humorous publications in the United States, but also has one of its members J. McK. Kimball '24, as president of an association of college humorous magazines formed last spring